Gillard’s move less than wise

Julia Gillard
would do well to keep this time-honoured injunction in mind. She has quickly secured the resignation of some of her more talented ministerial colleagues following the failed Rudd-inspired coup against her.

A natural reaction, perhaps, and one to be expected from a vindictive and insecure person.

A wise leader, however, would have moved rather more cautiously and extended the hand of reconciliation/ magnanimity to those who had failed to support her.

It is not, after all, as if the ALP has any depth of talent on its backbench.